Isa 58:5 | TNotes | STEP | 58:5 This is a satirical portrayal of the people’s fasting as mere external piety without repentance and righteous acts. Ritualistic and insincere fasting is nothing but pomp. • Wearing burlap and ashes are expressions of sorrow and mourning. • please the Lord ? The people erroneously believed that the Lord would bless them, if only they performed the right rituals.

‏ Isaiah 58:5

58:5 ^a This is a satirical portrayal of the people’s fasting as mere external piety without repentance and righteous acts. Ritualistic and insincere fasting is nothing but pomp.

• Wearing burlap and ashes are expressions of sorrow and mourning.

• please the Lord? The people erroneously believed that the Lord would bless them, if only they performed the right rituals.